In a period lasting through nine American presidencies, the Soviets and their satellite states were formidable adversaries.
So a coincidence of good and bad returns with presidencies of both parties is not proof of causation.
Since 1960, Congress acted 78 times to raise the debt limit, with most of those times occurring under Republican presidencies.
Mexican presidents have a long history of going abroad, even to teaching jobs, after rocky times at home following their presidencies.
Or the presidency could rotate only among big countries--producing squeals from the smalls, who have often run the most adept presidencies.
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Indeed, absent improved dollar policy that tilts toward strength and stability, the economic portion of their presidencies will almost certainly fall short.
The IGC recommended age or term limits for key FIFA figures to reduce the stranglehold that permanent presidencies can have on any organization.
Much as housing exploded during the devaluationist presidencies of Nixon and Carter, so did it boom during the Bush years when the dollar declined in value.
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It has been free to enjoy what is, if anything, even greater access to and influence over the Obama administration than it enjoyed during previous presidencies.
He led the Nittany Lions during six decades and through nine U.S. presidencies, producing a steady stream of professional players, and expanding his university in size and reputation.
Kennedy had one of the briefest presidencies in American history.
While proud of his accomplishments in office, Bush says he'll leave it to historians to assess his four years in office between the Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton presidencies.
That too is a peculiarly tricky combination, since the two presidencies will coincide with the moment governments must consider the constitutional proposals drafted by Mr Giscard and his colleagues.
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The smaller crowd this time around reflects the reality of second-term presidencies, when the novelty and expectations of a new leader have been replaced with the familiarity and experiences of the first four years.
France, Italy and Portugal have backed a proposal by Germany's foreign minister, Klaus Kinkel, that the European Union should send representatives of the troika (holders of its current, past and future presidencies) to Algiers to offer assistance.
Successful presidencies usually work with the Commission.
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The Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, a ramshackle concoction of regional political barons that is the coalition's biggest force, is trying to secure the presidencies of both houses of Congress, which are being contested at the moment.
It created the External Action Service, which is the EU's diplomatic corps, established at its head the post of high representative for foreign affairs and abolished the merry-go-round of foreign-policymaking by EU presidencies that formed new sets of priorities every six months.
Having said that, Christie knows that he still has massive amounts of work to do in New Jersey, and governors who have had multiple terms in their states (Bill Clinton, George W. Bush to name a few) have gone on to have two-term presidencies.
Irrespective of the reputations and the rhetoric of the Democratic and Republican parties today, the empirical correspondence between Republican presidencies and turbocharged entitlement expenditures should underscore the unsettling truth that both political parties have, on the whole, been working together in an often unspoken consensus to fuel the explosion of entitlement spending.
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Although Brussels Eurocrats, depressed after the two ineffective commission presidencies of Jacques Santer and Romano Prodi, hanker after a man with the grand dreams and vaulting ambition of Jacques Delors, president in 1985-95, who pushed through the single market and plans for monetary union, a low-key but effective president may now be just what is needed.
Assuming that is right, expect to see a big increase in appeals to the one bit of the European machine where unanimity will remain the rule: the European Council, which gathers together the 27 national leaders of the EU. Under Lisbon the European Council is to gain a semi-permanent president, to replace the system of rotating presidencies.
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